A Michigan Lottery player said the set of numbers that won him a $1 million Powerball prize came from an unusual source: a Zoltar fortune telling machine. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
A Michigan Lottery player said the set of numbers that won him a $1 million Powerball prize came from an unusual source: a Zoltar fortune telling machine.
Fraser resident Stephen Huesgen, 56, told Michigan Lottery officials the numbers he used to buy his ticket for the April 22 drawing online were the same digits he has been using for decades.
“About 30 years ago, I was in Las Vegas and got a fortune from a Zoltar machine,” Huesgen said. “On my fortune, there was a set of lucky numbers, so I have been playing those numbers on lottery games ever since.”
Fraser’s ticket matched the five white balls in the drawing: 24-29-32-49-63.
“The morning after the Powerball drawing, I saw an email from the lottery, which is when I found out I’d won a $1 million Powerball prize. I yelled to my wife: ‘Is this real?’ I don’t think this is going to fully hit me until I cash the check!”
The winner said his prize money will allow him to pay off his house and car, take a vacation and save for retirement.
